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Definition of proselytize in US English:

proselytize

verb

1Convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.

‘the program did have a tremendous evangelical effect, proselytizing many’

no object‘proselytizing for converts’

‘I do think that in the current era I follow His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in thinking that it is not correct or necessary, or even beneficial, to proselytise Buddhism and like convert America to Buddhism or something, as a religion.’

‘An individual can convert without having been proselytized; proselytizing, however, is a natural accompaniment to conversion.’

‘And since they rely on channels of sociality beyond their immediate context, chains model the idea of proselytising.’

‘Today's evangelicals, like 16 th-century Protestants, seek to proselytize and convert in ways that today's mainline largely does not.’

‘Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism were all proselytizing religions, with active mechanisms for conversion; Hinduism was not.’

‘But he's careful not to proselytise, to seek converts to the Sikh tradition.’

‘The games present a dilemma for a proselytising church with 60,000 international missionaries.’

‘A central plank of this policy is that the sharing of personal belief ‘must not include proselytising (seeking to convert) others about a particular faith’.’

‘Nevertheless, we are not required to proselytize and attempt to convert others to Judaism, since a good non-Jew is spiritually better off than a bad Jew…’

‘Hunters are even proselytizing women, our primordial gatherers, so that the whole family can go a-shooting.’

‘I don't want to proselytize him like he's done to me.’

‘The Academy has been fighting controversies over the past two years, including allegations that evangelical Christians on campus have been overzealous in proselytizing other students.’

‘Its commitment to open proselytizing and open dissemination of ideas through the printed word was conceivable only in the relatively liberal atmosphere that prevailed in the early days of the July Monarchy.’

‘This is likely to occur in tandem with growth in adherence to another tradition, and this in turn may involve the universalizing or proselytizing character of the other tradition.’

‘They have every right to engage in proselytizing, but before they begin proselytizing Jews, I wish they knew a lot more about Judaism.’

‘She was aggressively proselytized by local church authorities and told that she would never see her lost children if she didn't convert and accept baptism.’

‘North America attracted the English Crown as a forward base to attack Spain's possessions, and the Church of England fitfully heeded biblical imperatives to proselytize the heathen.’

‘Most religions tend to proselytize and to accept or encourage marriages with converts, resulting in quite large, genetically diverse populations.’

‘Only eccentrics and proselytising zealots can welcome such advances without trepidation.’

‘One of the ways the US came to deal with this in a practical manner has been this: churches didn't pay taxes and in return they didn't expect the government to proselytise for them.’